Current Projects
SASLI: Computer Software Simulation with Free Software
The HPPCA group has been working on researches in computer architecture and interconnection networks areas. Its main goals are the study, design and evaluation of aggressive architectures, capable of explore instruction level parallelism and thread level parallelism, and the study of interconnection networks of multiprocessors. In this context, the current project investigates simulation tools to help the teaching of Architecture and Computer Organization.
PRO-ARQ II: Power Consumption in Superscalar Architectures
The main goal is identify the situations were the processor can disable components of the superscalar architectures, with the cooperation of the operating system, which can schedule process resources, optimizing the energy consumption and maintaining a fine relation consumption/performance.
PRO-Clusters
The main goals are the investigation, design and evaluation of solutions for LAM/MPI computer clusters, acting in the development and evaluation of facilities, applications and simulators.
PARANAE: Project of Advanced Architectures with Adjustable Energy Level
The main goal of this project is the development of micro-architectures models of superscalar and SMT computers capable of controlling the energy consumption. The project predicts the use of computing simulation. Others goals are propose and evaluate configurations, techniques and scheduling algorithms that allow the optimization of the energy use in superscalar and SMT architectures.